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Are Kids Really More DEPRESSED and ANXIOUS Than Ever? What Can We Do? | Life Process Program from 2023-10-09T13:00
An alarming statistic from the NIH: 17% of 12-17 year olds in the united states is mentally unwell.
What accounts for this, and what can we do about it? (Hint: we've been...
ListenREBROADCAST: Re-Writing Your Life Story from 2023-10-07T18:42:34
This is a playback of a 2018 episode of the LPP Podcast in which we discuss the following:
The Life Process Program takes clients through a staged review of their life stories, focusing ...
ListenThis Man Studied the Lives of CENTENARIANS, What He Discovered May SHOCK You | Mario Martinez | LPP from 2023-10-06T13:24
Dr. Mario Martinez is a neuropsychologist who lectures worldwide on how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity. He is also the author of The Mind Body Code --- which you can check out on a...
ListenTalking Your CHILD Through ADDICTION, Collaborative Problem Solving THAT WORKS! from 2023-07-12T11:20
Zach Rhoads follows Dr. Peele's previous 5 "Ted Talks" -- 10 minute talks about addiction, natural recovery, harm reduction, and commonsense strategies for overcoming addiction. In...
ListenMost People Outgrow ADDICTION - 10 Minutes on How YOU Can Help from 2023-07-08T11:13
Rat Park and Vietnam tell us two crucial things about addiction and recovery. They first show that recovery is a natural process when the organism returns to a normally rewarding and supportive ...
ListenHow do people QUIT ADDICTIONS? | It's a VALUES Statement from 2023-07-05T11:05
In this short video, addiction psychologist Dr. Stanton Peele explains that people quit addictions by finding ways to live their values (as opposed to simply choosing 'techniques'). He...
ListenTHREE Criteria for an Addictive Experience | PSYCHOLOGIST Breaks Down Addiction in 5 Minutes from 2023-07-01T23:03:32
If common experiences are at the core of addiction, how do we define addictive experiences so as to distinguish them from ordinary ones?
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Psychologist Responds to Judson Brewer's Ted Talk | What is Addiction? How Can You Beat It? from 2023-03-19T13:12:21
Dr. Stanton Peele Delivers His OWN Ted Talk (From home), in response to Judson Brewer's talk, "A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moW9jvvMr4 Summa...
ListenFinding Purpose in Mid to Late Life (EVEN When It's Painful To Get Started!) from 2023-02-14T02:29:12
Several of our clients have told us something to the effect of:
“I know that Meaning/purpose in life is a bulwark against addiction. But I’m ____ (45 - 65) years old…. I have failed relat...
ListenIs Drinking HELPFUL or HARMFUL - Wanna Get CONFUSED? Then Read the NYT! from 2023-01-31T13:12:37
Zach Rhoads and Dr. Stanton Peele contemplate the transfer of knowledge about alcohol from Science to Society — and how imperfectly the job gets done. “Alcohol: Even a Little Bit Is Harmful!” th...
ListenThree Pscyhologically EFFECTIVE Ways To Set Goals -- And STICK TO THEM from 2023-01-02T02:44:50
Step by Step Change v Radical Transformation: Two LPP paths to the same destination
Placing the person in the driver’s seat of their lives through each method.
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ListenWhy Is America SAD? | Anderson Cooper, Serena Williams, Taylor Swift, and TRAUMA THEORY from 2022-12-12T14:42:09
How did the main theme in American life become confronting the lifetime effects of trauma, rather than triumphing over them?
This preoccupation with trauma includes arguably the gr...
Listenhe History of NON-DISEASE Addiction Treatment from 2022-10-10T14:17:50
Tom Horvath (SMART Recovery) and Stanton Peele (Life Process Program) delve into their decades’ long association in the battle to establish non-disease, harm reduction treatment in the United St...
ListenAre "Alcoholism" And "Addiction" REAL? | DSM vs AA vs LPP from 2022-08-21T14:18:25
There is a movement against use of labels like “alcoholism” and “addiction” as being pejorative and discouraging. 3
Zach and Stanton evaluate these critiques and discuss how to deal const...
ListenRemoving The MAGIC From The Magic MUSHROOM from 2022-08-05T16:35:59
We have embarked on a psychedelic renaissance, including use for both therapeutic and consciousness expansion purposes. In both cases the drug allows people to recast their consciousness — of th...
Listen988 Mental Health Hotline WON'T SOLVE our Mental Health CRISIS! from 2022-07-28T15:44:27
The new mental health hotline is buckshot. Who actually thinks that calling a stranger for a few minutes addresses problems of depression and anxiety? Indeed, the idea that this makes sense is a...
ListenHow the addiction concept drives us crazy | Part II: Harm reduction as Reductionism from 2022-07-27T16:39:21
Harm reduction once sensibly meant dealing with the whole person to reduce their likelihood of harming themselves. Common sense examples abounded — like helping people find work, residences, and...
ListenHow the addiction concept drives us crazy | PART I: SMOKING from 2022-07-11T15:49:27
When we learned smoking was addictive we threw out all common sense: that people ultimately choose their fates, that they are led that way by their privileges and values, and that to believe tha...
ListenTop FIVE Mental Health BEST PRACTICES | Life Process Program from 2022-06-26T01:24:15
Biological psychiatry has IMPLODED, and everyone knows it, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the long-time (2002-2015) director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas...
ListenThe Yin and Yang of Asking Questions (and how to ask them) from 2022-06-23T17:16:41
How do you learn about people, about life? Questions. Yet again, how do you explore— and poke holes in— preposterous positions that people take? Questions.
Finally, how do you help ...
ListenHow Jason Bateman BEAT TRAUMA and Became a STAR In His 50's from 2022-05-23T18:19:57
The Netflix series “Ozark,” besides being a sustained “hit,” has several psychological and addiction merits. First, show runner and star Jason Batemen could have been a basket case child actor v...
ListenWORSE Than Drugs: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Were LOVE Addicted from 2022-05-15T16:55:22
We don’t care if Johnny Depp wins his defamation suit against Amber Heard. Nor will we render an opinion about whether “mutual abuse” can be used to describe a relationship where there is such a...
ListenHow To Motivate ANYONE using *Motivational Interviewing* and Motivational MISDIRECTION from 2022-04-22T16:09:37
The use of “misdirection” in MI
Using outside-the-box life areas (e.g., intimate relationships) to explore blind-alley areas of concern (e.g., alcohol), and how MI allows Chris Rock and a...
ListenHow To Avoid Being DUPED | Addiction, Love, Values, and LESSONS learned from "Bad Vegan" Series from 2022-03-27T17:36:10
How do we respond to virtually insane behavior by vital, creative women who devote their lives to petty shysters and hoodlums who rip them off and destroy their livelihoods, families, lives? We ...
ListenSingle Drunk Female | What Modern Streaming REVEALS About Harm Reduction from 2022-03-20T03:16:57
AA doesn’t dominate the alcohol and drug scene the way it did in the last century. Harm Reduction has become a new buzz word, claimed by the most unlikely sources. Meanwhile, p...
ListenHow To Avoid CATFISHING Scams! | Desperate For Love versus SELF EMPOWERMENT from 2022-03-07T19:46:21
The podcast “Sweet Bobby” raises the question, “What do you call it when a talented, caring woman devotes ten years of her life to an imaginary character, and can still barely function in the af...
ListenPhil Collins' NON AA "Recovery" + We Answer Questions About Addiction from 2022-02-28T17:47:07
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to listener feedback.
First, they inspect the old AA adage, "One day at a time"
Then they turn to a case study centered on a former ...
ListenDirty John and the Tinder Swindler from 2022-02-20T16:12:58
Does love addiction exist?” commentators question. Yet our most popular streaming media stories are replete with the cases of people whose lives are severely disturbed by harmful, irrational int...
ListenAlcoholics Anonymous: A Net Good or a Net Harm? from 2022-02-17T03:45:04
Is AA helpful?
Some people claim that AA offers specific benefits. We should say that we endorse anybody’s right to pursue any form of support or treatment they want, or find helpful, fro...
ListenJohann Hari | Stolen Focus: Why You Can't PAY ATTENTION - And How to Think Deeply Again from 2022-02-14T23:54:23
NYT Best-Selling Author Johann Hari, In his new book, "Stolen Focus", explains why and how our ability to pay attention is diminishing; he explains why that matters; and he offers potential solu...
ListenThe End of Trauma with Dr. George Bonanno from 2021-12-19T15:31:11
Dr. George Bonanno's decades-long research on trauma and resilience reveals that most people overcome traumatic and adverse events in their lives.
More important: people who do feel...
ListenHOW TO PREVENT TRAGEDY School Shootings, GUNS, & Connection from 2021-12-13T15:43:25
Zach and Stanton discuss the profiles of school shooters. They see a lack of connection that is also present in youth (and older) addiction problems. Zach describes working with such children, i...
ListenI May Destroy You + Radical Empathy from 2021-12-05T16:50:22
Stanton and Zach review America’s allegiance to the opioids-are-inevitably-addictive scenario even though (a) it’s wrong, (b) 100,000 people a year are now dying due to drug use. But separation ...
ListenHulu's "Dopesick" is the NEW War on Drugs from 2021-11-27T03:21:14
“Dopesick” is the new version of the War on Drugs for people who want to demonize drugs but to claim they’re not drug warriors. “It’s in the brain” they screech, pointing to their heads.”We’ll c...
ListenDISEASE ENVY - Why People Yearn For Labels, DESPITE Their Best Interests from 2021-10-26T11:15:36
Stanton and Zach discuss why the disease theory will never die in America, no matter how many Americans die from drugs, even as Carl Hart and others (futilely) join Stanton’s antidisease campaig...
ListenJoe Rogan's talk with "ALL IS DOPAMINE" Addiction Expert - OUR RESPONSE from 2021-10-11T00:23:01
Dr. Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to clips from Joe Rogan's recent interview with Stanford Psychiatrist and Author Anna Lembke.
It was with some disappointment — but little surprise...
ListenINSTAGRAM Addiction, Revisiting "FREE RANGE", & New BRAIN DISEASE News from 2021-09-28T11:12:53
Zach and Stanton review the addiction news of the week: from "love" addiction (actually, love is the opposite of addiction) to instagram addiction, to the perpetual search for addiction in the b...
ListenLenore Skenazy | Future-Proofing and ADDICTION-Proofing our Next Generation from 2021-09-19T13:15:59
Today's guest wants to "future-proof" our next generation. That is, to tug on the natural tendency of children to explore, learn, and grow competent along the way, just as we, at the Life Proces...
ListenZach Compares Heroin Addiction to Love Addiction -- Stanton Responds from 2021-09-07T15:35:07
This is a short clip from Zach Rhoads' forthcoming interview with Dr. Stanton Peele.
Stanton wrote the best-selling 1975 book, Love and Addiction, in which he laid out a conceptu...
ListenThe Ethics of Fighting Disease Myths from 2021-09-06T23:22:22
There’s no need to contest or censor divergent views on addiction and mental illness as told, for instance, by Koren Zailckas, William Styron, and T Kira Madden. They are effortlessly assimilate...
ListenMARK NORMAND: Implanting the Recovery Chip | Trauma, Role Models, NON RECOVERY STORY from 2021-09-05T22:23:27
Zach and Stanton discuss Mark Normand, who as a young man would certainly pass Gabor Maté’s muster as traumatized.
Normand developed drinking issues in his 20s, but didn’t fol...
ListenAfghanistan, Vietnam and the Disease Theory of Addiction from 2021-08-27T02:21:43
Our massive failure in Afghanistan reminds us of cultural delusions that have gutted us in the past—starting with Vietnam. Vietnam signaled that we didn’t comprehend the consequences of our over...
ListenOlympic Inspiration | Heroic Achievement, Stoicism, & Overcoming Trauma from 2021-08-17T21:58:39
Zach and Stanton return to the Olympic fields of glory to worship the women who have overcome every challenge—mental health, moral, and existential—by declaring: “I will not be defeated.”
UNDOING DRUGS: A History Of Harm Reduction With MAIA SZALAVITZ from 2021-08-11T10:45:41
Zach Rhoads speaks with Maia Szalavitz about her new book, "Undoing Drugs", which traces the history of Harm Reduction from the movement's genesis to the way it affects mainstream thoughts, beli...
ListenHARM REDUCTION & Community Healing from 2021-07-23T03:27:01
Zach discusses the personal meaning of community as “therapy” in terms of his own experiences of a family tragedy, one that drew his extended family together. In this discussion he reflects on t...
ListenLean on Me: Stanton sings COMMUNITY as therapy from 2021-07-14T16:37:01
America is convinced that if it can only provide enough medicalized treatment that all of its citizens will be fine. The opposite is true. As Stanton quotes a chapter head from his memoir: ...
ListenSober Good; Drinking Bad -- Why "Sobriety" is the Modern Temperance from 2021-07-05T17:11:23
Remarkably, American anti-alcohol forces are front and present in contemporary progressive thought. They are amplified by incessant clarion calls for people to abstain — i.e., to enter “”recover...
ListenPolitics, Britney Spears, Trauma, and DISEASE from 2021-06-28T12:57
Stanton and Zach dissect the current news cycle.
First, Britney Spears revealed she is being medicated against her will. She is still being held captive by her “diseases” (the ones ...
ListenMatthew McConaughey and Quinta Brunson -- Parents, Trauma, and Forgiveness from 2021-06-20T23:34:05
In memoirs that defy current thinking, Matthew McConaughey and Quinta Brunson describe being beaten and repressed, respectively, by their parents. Only they don’t currently dislike their parents...
ListenMare of Easttown -- Is HBO Moving Away from Drug HYSTERIA? from 2021-06-17T01:07:48
HBO has become the ultimate destination of Harm Reduction in streaming media with its shows Mare of Easttown and Hacks. In both, the show’s protagonists (again played by women) drink (Mare) and ...
ListenAmerican confessions tug at our heart strings. Do they help? from 2021-06-07T13:23:46
Naomi Osaka’s decision to withdraw from the French Open rather than face a post match press conference became worldwide news. Osaka says her depression and anxiety make it impossible for her to ...
ListenBelieving the UNBELIEVABLE: Cognitive Distortions in the Drug Reform Field from 2021-05-23T13:41:57
WARNING: Please be aware that the following many not be suitable for people who are disturbed by discussions of death OR of the fallible thinking that prevails in the drug reform field.
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ListenYou MUST be Treated! (Coerced Treatment and How to Overcome it) from 2021-05-10T18:48
WHY do people so often reject drug and alcohol treatment, let alone refusing to volunteer for it, so that American addiction treatment depends on the legal system to survive? Stanton and Z...
ListenThe Pandemic Has Made Us All ALCOHOLIC! (or not) from 2021-05-02T12:19:08
Stanton and Zach consider five responses to NY Times article seeding “pandemic panic” @ alcohol:
1. There hasn’t been a significant increase in drinking.
2. Problems w...
ListenHow Psychedelics Work, Jud Brewer's Mindfulness, Seth Rogen's Cannabis Use | LPP Podcast from 2021-04-26T18:52:18
Addiction news of the week (and its meaning and uses) in review:
What does it tell us about (a) medical therapy, (b) the history of medicine, (c) the nature of mental disorders that...
ListenReflections on Maia Szalavitz, Problems With The Disease Model, Casual Drug Use from 2021-04-18T16:18:09
Dr. Peele and Zach consider Zach’s interview with Maia Szalavitz. Does Maia believe in the disease theory? What would happen if she took heroin again? Would she "Richard Harris" it (drinki...
ListenGUEST Maia Szalavitz: Addiction, Harm Reduction, Methadone Maintenance from 2021-04-11T12:50:38
Maia Szalavitz joins Zach Rhoads a discussion about addiction and harm reduction, including her forthcoming book, "Undoing Drugs".
Maia and Zach agree on a definition of addiction but re-...
ListenQ&A With Dr. Peele: "Am I focusing TOO much on moderation?" from 2021-04-06T14:04:30
Dr. Stanton Peele takes questions from LPP followers. Today he tackles the concept of moderation, which LPP encourages with respect to drugs, alcohol, or any other involvement that a person may ...
ListenSundays With Stories: Cannabis & Teens, Drug Sensationalism, & Hunter Biden Saved By Love from 2021-04-05T18:37:07
JAMA Pediatric affirms what Dr. Peele has been saying for fifty years (which prominent drug-reformers deny): “marijuana is as addictive as opioids.” Or is that... Opioids are only as addictive a...
ListenDemi Lovato: Breaking Free From The "RECOVERY" Narrative from 2021-04-01T11:43:02
California dreamer Demi Lovato joins the long list of people who don’t conform to the recovery narrative. Only she’s up front about it.
Demi Lovato’s intense substance-use history almost ...
ListenWhat Does Addiction Have To Do With The Tragic Events In Atlanta? | Life Process Program from 2021-03-22T01:08:21
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to news threads that link the recent Atlanta murders to sex addiction.
Does this claim make sense or is the "sex addiction" claim simply a...
ListenHow Meghan Markle Overcame Depression WITHOUT Psychiatry, Drugs, or 800-numbers from 2021-03-17T15:40:05
Meghan Markel is being used as an example of how speaking openly about depression is invaluable in order to get treatment and avoid suicide.
Well, not so fast...
Here are som...
ListenThe Breakfast Club's TASTELESS Interview With Carl Hart | Stanton's FIVE TIPS For Carl As He Promotes His Book from 2021-03-11T01:33:33
Dr. Carl Hart has faced rough seas promoting his new book. As helpers and theorists who have faced similar tempests, Stanton and Zach offer some helpful hints.
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ListenMinisode | Q&A with Dr. Peele: "Is 'Sex Addiction' different from 'Love Addiction'?" from 2021-03-03T16:18:01
An audience member asks 'Is "Sex Addiction" different from "Love Addiction' and can the two concepts be used interchangeably? Stanton explores the differences between the two terms and ill...
ListenYouth, Addition, and a Failed Treatment Industry (Part 1 / 3) -- Madeleine Dean's Rehab Fantasy from 2021-03-03T13:39:14
Madeleine Dean: We admire you, but you’re thinking about America’s addiction problems is all wrong.
Dr. Peele and Zach explain to the Congresswoman how she is going in exactly the w...
ListenIs Sex Addiction Different From "Love Addiction"? from 2021-02-23T22:48:46
An audience member asks 'Is "Sex Addiction" different from "Love Addiction' and can the two concepts be used interchangeably?
Stanton explores the differences between the two terms ...
ListenJordan Peterson's Messy Room | Benzodiazepines, 12 Rules For Life, Addiction | Sundays With Stories from 2021-02-15T11:05:13
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss Jordan Peterson's work, his views about addiction, and how he handled his own addiction to benzodiazepines (with an understanding that Peterson makes a ...
ListenDr. Carl Hart | Drug Use For GROWN-UPS | Life Process Program, Sundays With Stories from 2021-02-09T03:12:40
Dr. Carl Hart explains that the vast majority of people who use drugs do so with no problem. In fact, drugs -- yes, even so-called "hard drugs"-- offer more positive than negative experiences. Listen
What Does It Mean to be "Trauma Informed"? from 2021-02-05T15:55:08
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads answer the following frequently asked question: Is LPP a “trauma informed program”?
They offer a definition of “trauma” in sev...
ListenHunter Biden, Pussy Riot, and Family Addiction Entanglements | LPP Podcast from 2021-01-31T05:01:11
Questions of family often appear in relation to addiction and drug issues.
As with all questions in these areas, discussion is misled by disease beliefs, which le...
ListenEp 46: Shia Labeouf is LOVE SICK | With Dr. Stanton Peele from 2021-01-18T13:07:08
On today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads (of the Life Process Program) discuss current events in addiction and harm reduction. The key note: Shia Labeouf's Love Addiction!
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ListenASK STANTON: "Why do people call addiction a disease? What is addiction REALLY?" from 2021-01-04T00:13:24
Stanton Peele answers questions from social media followers, listeners, and YouTube viewers.
Today, Zach Rhoads reads Stanton a question from a Facebook follower: "Why do people cal...
ListenEpisode 45: Mikey G Ignores the "Addict" Identity in Favor of Life (Sundays With Stories Edition) from 2020-12-14T00:55:41
Today Zach Rhoads speaks with Michael Galipeau (AKA Mikey G) about his upbringing in a state-run institution, his years of homelessness, and his relationship (positive and negative) with illicit...
ListenEpisode 44 | The Dax Shepard Relapse Story (Sundays With Stories Edition) from 2020-12-01T17:39:50
The actor, podcaster, and AA advocate Dax Shepard has decided to turn his sobriety count from 16 years all the way back to one day. This is the result of a recent decision to take narcotic pain ...
ListenEpisode 43 (Sundays With Stories Edition): Jason Terrell's Natural Recovery Story from 2020-11-23T16:31:14
Today's episode is a "Sundays With Stories" edition and our guest today is a man named Jason Terrell.
Jason was kind (and brave) enough to spend time talking about his upbringing, h...
ListenEpisode 42 (Sundays With Stories 9): Peter Bogdanovich and Love Addiction from 2020-11-15T17:28
On episode 9, Stanton and Zach talk about film director Peter Bogdanovich and his history of love addiction. In fact, the two argue that love is the worst addiction of all!
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ListenEpisode 41: LPP Coach Aaron Ferguson's Return From an Addicted and Traumatic Past from 2020-11-08T13:13:01
We have a truly remarkable LPP “Sundays With Stories” — Aaron’s story. Put simply, Aaron’s life has been . . . well, it might be rejected by Netflix as unbelievable. And it has left him firmly i...
ListenEpisode 40: Tom Horvath, SMART Recovery, Addiction, and the Limitations of the Disease Model from 2020-11-05T10:13:07
Not so long ago, I published a blog comparing and contrasting SMART Recovery with the Listen
Episode 39: What Does Evidence-Based Treatment Tell Us? from 2020-11-01T14:00
In today’s episode of Sundays With Stories, Stanton and Zach discuss current events.
This week a New York Times article bemoaned the failure of addiction speciali...
ListenEpisode 38: Are harm Reduction and natural recovery really suitable for the REALLY gone? from 2020-10-25T06:54:52
Dr. Stanton Peele is the founder and creator of the Life Process Program: http://LifeProcessProgram.com
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Dr. Peele and Zach Rhoads return for episode...
ListenEpisode 37: Standard Addiction and Recovery Myths DEBUNKED! from 2020-10-19T09:54:20
Dr. Peele received an email from a documentary film company, asking him to participate in a documentary about addiction. He happily agreed, and then the company sent him a list of questions that...
ListenEpisode 36: Trauma Theory and "The Good Place" from 2020-10-13T10:55:45
Today, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads talk about two popular shows and their satire of standard AA / Trauma addition theories.
The two shows are "South Park" (a classic ep...
ListenEpisode 35: Steve-O's (not so) Recovery Story from 2020-10-07T10:15:13
Today, Zach and Dr. Peele discuss Stephen Glover’s (AKA Steve-O) addiction story.
Steve-O is the TV personality who produced and ...
ListenEpisode 34: Elton John and Bob Weir's (not so) Recovery Stories from 2020-10-01T10:48:22
Welcome to Episode 34!
In this episode of Sundays With Stories, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads tell the not-so-recovery stories of two ultra-famous musical legends, Elton John an...
ListenEpisode 33: The Drew Barrymore Story (as told by Zach and Stanton) from 2020-09-25T16:22:22
Welcome to episode 33!
This episode is the audio version of a new weekly segment, produced by LPP and hosted by Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads, called "Sundays With Stories" Listen
SMART Recovery and the Life Process Program: Major Differences and Welcome Similarities from 2020-09-14T16:19:52
Welcome to the LPP Podcast!
Today's episode is a segment of our interview with LPP Coach Dee Cloward.
In this segment, Dee talks about her work at SMART Recovery and compares...
ListenEpisode 31: Mindfulness Meditation (15 minutes) from 2020-09-04T08:47:20
Welcome to episode 31!
Today we want you to take care of you.
So enjoy this 15 minute mindfulness meditation and free your mind so that you can make reasoned, responsib...
ListenEpisode 30: BRIGHTMIND-- Beat Addiction With Mindfulness and Meditation from 2020-08-28T14:08:36
Welcome to episode 30!
Today's guest is Toby Sola.
Toby is the CEO of Brightmind for a living; he practices and teaches meditation as a livelihood. Br...
ListenEpisode 29: Dee Cloward-- Beating Addiction With Encouragement and Common Sense! from 2020-08-21T12:27:10
Welcome to episode 29!
Today's guest is LPP's own Dee Cloward.
Dee has been a Life Process Program coach for four years now. Prior to that, she was with SMART Recovery for 15 years...
ListenEpisode 28: Mindy Vincent - Utah Harm Reduction Coalition from 2020-08-13T16:29:10
Welcome to Episode 28!
Today's guest is Mindy Vincent.
Mindy is an addiction therapist and social worker; she is the host of the podcast "Therapeutic Madness"; and she ...
ListenEpisode 27: Zach Appears on the "REBT Advocates" Podcast from 2020-07-31T08:55:35
Welcome to episode 27!
Today you'll hear LPP coach and author Zach Rhoads talking with Michael Edelstein and Tommy Bateman of the show REBT Advocates about his and Stanton ...
ListenEpisode 26: Daniel Snyder-- Harm Reduction, Self-Agency and Personal Responsibility from 2020-07-23T12:35:41
Welcome to Episode 26!
On today's program, Zach Rhoads speaks with Daniel Snyder.
Daniel Snyder lives in Langley, British Columbia where he is a project and peer c...
ListenEpisode 25: Will Godfrey of Filter Magazine (an online harm reduction magazine) from 2020-07-21T04:28:47
Welcome to episode 25!
Today's episode is the fourth of our four-part series about harm reduction.
Zach spoke with Dr. Peele in the first three episodes of the series. ...
ListenEpisode 24: Improvement versus Perfection (Harm Reduction Series Part 3) from 2020-07-09T12:14:36
Welcome to episode 24!
Today's episode is also part three of our four-part series about harm reduction. Zach and Stanton discuss several domains in which harm reduction can be useful:&nbs...
ListenEpisode 23: HARM REDUCTION versus NON-ABSTINENCE from 2020-07-02T04:38:35
Welcome to episode 23!
This is episode #2 of a four-part series about Harm Reduction.
Last week, Stanton and Zach discussed the history of harm reduction for addiction. That ...
ListenEpisode 12: Monday Morning Ammunition-- Module 1 (self-reflection) with Dr. Stanton Peele from 2020-06-30T00:42
Welcome to episode 12!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In today's episode, ...
ListenEpisode 22: The History of Harm Reduction for Addiction from 2020-06-26T14:52:03
Welcome to episode 22!
We’ve created a new series of episodes titled, “LPP and Harm Reduction”
The series contains four segments that you’ll hear over the next four weeks. &n...
ListenEpisode 21: Dr. Sandy Steingard -- "Critical Psychiatry" from 2020-06-20T18:44:31
Today you’ll hear an excerpt from my long-form discussion with Dr. Sandy Steingard. Sandy is a psychiatrist and the chief medical officer of a statewide non-profit organization in Vermont called...
ListenEpisode 20: Dr. Robert Schwebel "The Seven Challenges" from 2020-06-15T15:16:54
Today you’ll get a sneak-peak from a long-form conversation I had with Dr. Robert Schwebel. Robert Schwebel is a psychologist, author, and the creator of a non 12-step program call...
ListenEpisode 19: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 8- "GREATER GOALS") from 2020-06-01T05:27:20
Welcome to episode 19!
In today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss the Life Process Program's Module 8: "GREATER GOALS"
You can listen to episodes related to the ...
ListenEpisode 18: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 7- "MATURITY") from 2020-05-18T14:20:37
Welcome to episode 18!
In today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss the Life Process Program's Module 7: "MATURITY"
You can listen to episod...
ListenEpisode 17: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 6- "SOCIAL SUPPORT") from 2020-05-04T16:41:28
Welcome to episode 17!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele.
In...
ListenEpisode 16: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 5- "RESOURCES AND SKILLS") from 2020-04-27T13:03:38
Welcome to episode 16!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele.
... ListenEpisode 15: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 4- "Rewards") from 2020-04-13T03:54:44
Welcome to episode 15!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In to...
ListenEpisode 14: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 3- "Motivation") from 2020-04-06T14:17:14
Welcome to episode 14!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In today'...
ListenEpisode 13: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 2: Values) from 2020-03-30T15:29:24
Welcome to episode 13!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In today'...
ListenEpisode 11: Monday Morning Ammunition--- Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with Dr. Rick Barnett from 2020-03-16T13:41:18
Happy Monday Morning!
Today's episode of Monday Morning Ammunition is an interview that LPP coach Zach Rhoads conducted with Vermont Psychologist, Dr. Rick Barnett....
ListenEpisode 10: Monday Morning Ammunition -- Dr. Ross Greene's Proactive and Collaborative Solutions from 2020-03-09T13:28:59
Today’s episode is an excerpt from a conversation between LPP coach Zach Rhoads and developmental psychologist and Best-Selling author Dr. Ross Greene.
Zach...
ListenEpisode 9: Monday Morning Ammunition-- "Outgrowing Addiction" from 2020-03-02T15:32:48
This episode is a reading from Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads' new book, "Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of 'Disease' Therapy".
You can purchase a copy of the book h...
ListenEpisode 8: Bill Kinkle: 12-Step Coercion from 2020-02-27T22:52:23
Today I spoke with a man named Bill Kinkle.
Bill is a nurse, a paramedic and an advocate working at, what he calls, the intersection of harm reduction and r...
ListenEpisode 7: Monday Morning Ammunition-- Stanton Peele talks about Outgrowing Addiction from 2020-02-24T02:40:13
This episode is an excerpt from Stanton's recent appearance on "Cultural Baggage," a Texas-based radio program hosted by Dean Becker.
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ListenEpisode 6: Monday Morning Ammunition with Brooke Feldman from 2020-02-10T11:00
Welcome to the LPP Podcast.
LPP is the Life Process Program-- an online (NON 12-step) counseling program for people who think they may have addictions, and who want to overcome t...
ListenEpisode 5: Dr. Peele Does Q&A With Group In Galway Ireland from 2020-01-11T06:02
On today's podcast, Dr. Stanton Peele delivers a talk to a group of helping professionals in Galway Ireland.
His keynote addresses the importance of recognizing values-- as well as ...
ListenEpisode 4: Dr. Stanton Peele Interviews Harm Reduction Authors from 2020-01-08T17:24:05
Today's episode is a throwback!
Dr. Stanton Peele interviews harm-reduction therapists and authors of the book, Over The Influence, Patt Denning and Jeannie Little. These l...
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